Tonight: Art v. OWS

Date + time: March 21, 8pm
Location: Flux Factory, 39-31 29th Street, Long Island City

Flux Factory is pleased to present Flux Death Match, a new initiative that takes online debates into real-space at the Flux gallery. Conceived as lively discussions between influential members of the art, tech, and political communities, panelists will illustrate their points with slides, web references, and other materials in a rapid-fire way that will challenge convictions on critical issues.

In this first Flux Death Match, art critics Paddy Johnson of Art Fag City and Hrag Vartanian of Hyperallergic and artists John Powers and William Powhida will face off in a heated debate. The panelists will argue over the strategies artists use to engage with the Occupy Wall Street movement and confront the concentration of wealth and power within the art world. Johnson and Powers have a history of online skirmishes, most recently a Twitter debate that resulted in an 18 part discussion posted to YouTube on the merits of the recent ArtPrize city-wide competition in Grand Rapids, MI. Vartanian and Powhida have traded barbs publicly, both in person and through various online platforms; their epic disagreements have undoubtedly shaped the discourse surrounding the NYC art scene.

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Occupy CAA

[From Nancy Popp]

If any of you will be at College Art Association in Los Angeles this week, I'll be chairing a panel on Saturday, Feb 25th at 2:30p.

I am hoping this panel will provide an entry to 'Occupy" CAA, and open up the very restrictive structure of the conference to create a more equitable platform for discussion.

This panel will be multi-sited, participation-based, and open to students and the general public in conjunction with OTIS College of Art and Design's Re/Locating Learning: Public Practices as Art:

http://www.otis.edu/calendar/2081-Re-Locating-Learning-Public-Practices-as-Art.html

Please join us in the West Lobby of the Los Angeles Convention Center; we will be starting the panel in Conference Room 403A.

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OWS events at the Invisible Dog in Brooklyn - Jan 5 to Jan 11, 2012

I want to invite you to a very exciting action at the Invisible Dog
Art Space (51 Bergen St. in Brooklyn). It will be for 7 days, from
January 5th until January 11th. Here's the deal:

Steve Valk, a choreographer and activist from Occupy Frankfurt was
invited to organize a series of performances as part of the PS122 Coil
Festival. He thought it would be a great opportunity to "Occupy" a
performance space, and approached a few of us from Arts and Culture in
early December about a collaboration. Steve is excited about having a
dialogue with with OWS artists, writers, and activists of all kinds,
and a group of about six of us from OWS have collaborated with Steve
to prepare this event. So far, it's looking mighty good.

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